#ex

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#avoid #bipartisanship #causes #compromises #cooperate

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#doing #europe #exercised #expand #foundation

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. ↗

— James Buchan

#awash #been #british #consequences #consular

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#friend #gifts #god #good #good friend

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#find #fortune #inequality #man #perhaps

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. ↗

— James Buchan

#bombings #during #east #europe #exclusive

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#enjoy #excellence #how #joy #know

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#absorb #awful #grave #hands #lean